After touring with her boyfriend’s band, Lanore Hahn was anticipating a relatively uneventful return journey back to her house in Wisconsin when fate intervened in the form of a tiny piglet now named Kim Gordon.

In early March, a compassionate woman in the Finger Lakes region came across a group of animals on a rural property in a terrible state of neglect.

Lily: Baby Goat Brought to Safety in the Nick of Time

A Newborn Lamb’s Close Call: Animals bred for food production constantly walk a razor-thin line between life and death that leaves them vulnerable to the most devastating abuses.

This summer, a certain intersection of New York City’s Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx seems to have turned into a conduit for wayward farm animals in search of refuge.

Sick, frail, and yet possessing an indomitable will to live, a 7-month-old goat with a seeming “sixth sense” for direction was found running along a busy road just miles from Farm Sanctuary after escaping from a slaughterhouse in nearby Newfield, New York.

You’ve heard of scapegoats, but how about escapegoats?

The little goat was alone as he wandered through Pelham Bay Park, but his predicament was about to place him in growing company.

It’s a bird … it’s a plane … no … it’s Fiona: the newest piglet at our New York Shelter!